• The Bird in Me Flies has won several awards in Sweden, including the August Prize, Sweden's most important literary award for Best Swedish Children's Book of the Year.
• The story is inspired by the early life of Swedish artist Berta Hansson (1910-1994), but at its core it is about a young girl's determination to defy the social conventions of her time and follow her dreams.
• The text for this novel in verse is not long and along with the stunning illustrations provides a rich reading experience - one that might especially appeal to less fluent readers.
• The book has had wide international success - it has been translated into Korean, Danish, Arabic, English (in the UK and North America), Belarusian, Croatian and Hindi.
• Sara Lundberg's blogpost on the creation of the book can be found at https://blog.picturebookmakers.com/post/182911913191/sara-lundberg.
• Curriculum connections include Language arts / novel study; History / women's history; Art / art history, drawing, painting, sculpting.